It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that deer love freshly planted food plots, good browse and freshly dropped acorns more than corn, however, when your plots are mowed to the ground, most of the browse has diminished, and all the acorns are gone and its cold, the deer will be all over the corn. It's not a cure all, it's just another tool in the shed. We felt our doe population strayed from our property late last year, so i'm throwing the corn to them to keep them on the property so maybe the bucks will be here.